On Wednesday 29 October 2008 14:39:31 Philipp Marek wrote:> it's finally time to announce a new version.

Regrettably, Lenny (the next release of Debian Linux) was frozen prior to the release of fsvs-1.1.17. This means that the release is not accepting new upstream releases at this time. So Debian Lenny will ship with 1.1.16 (plus any critical and security bugfixes that come along).

This is the downside of distributions with rigorous quality assurance built into their release engineering process.

Because of the way the release engineering process works, it works out easier for me if fsvs-1.1.17 isn't imported into the Debian unstable distribution until Lenny is released.

In the meantime, impatient Debian unstable users can grab the source package here: